Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife can hardly have been surprised by his love child. He was a shameless cheat from the very start

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Arnold Schwarzenegger was renowned for picking up young women while he trained on Muscle Beach, California. His advances were shamelessly brazen, according to the women who were approached by him

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I
n July 1977, a month before he met Maria Shriver for the first time, Arnold
Schwarzenegger was walking along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles
indulging in his favourite pastime, girl-watching, when he spotted one he
liked, a beautiful blonde on rollerskates.

He sensed that this was not a woman who would respond to one of the crude
come-ons for which he had become famous on the body-building circuit. Sue
Moray was a 25-year-old Beverly Hills hairdresser when she ran into
Schwarzenegger that day. It was “lust at first sight”, she later said; she
recognised Schwarzenegger from Pumping Iron, the film that made him a star.

She was flattered when he stopped to chat, but then she caught his eye
wandering, checking out the other girls as they went past.

“You’re really a whore, Arnold, a beach whore,” she said. Schwarzenegger
insisted that he was no such thing, but